The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-24
JAY GOULD'S NEW CAR.


New York sun
Until three weeks ago, millionaire jay
Gould has not had the luxury of having
a private railway car as his own individ-
al property. Heretofore he had used
the old Union Pacific car Convoy, the
property of the railway company, and
reserved for the use of the president and
directors, but as a matter of fact used
almost exclusively by MIR. Gould in his
long flying leaps from one end of the
continent to the other.
But the Convoy has been assigned to
a back seat now, and in its place has
come fresh from the Pullman shops,
and respondent in all the glory of pol
ished woods and glittering mirrors, the
beautiful car ATLANTA, named for Mr..
Gould's fleet-footed yacht, and, like the
yacht, Mr.. Gould's private property.
The Atalanta was turned out of the
Pullman shops in Chicago three weeks
ago. and brought to the Pennsylvania
railway station in Jersey City, where it
now stands. Mr.. Gould has not yet
seen his new purchase. 1t was COM
pleted Just after he set out on his recent
yacht voyage, and its owner has not yet
had opportunity to inspect it.
The ATLANTA is remarkable in that it
is by half foot the longest car ever
turned out of the Pullman shops. 1t is
20 feet long and weighs $1,000 pounds.
The average weight of the Pullman cars
is $4,000 pounds. The ATLANTA rests on
six-wheel trucks, the wheels being of
paper and ~ inches in diameter. 1t was
Mr.. GOuld's direction that special pains
should be taken to give the car strength
and steadiness of motion, and every
thing To this end that modern ingenuity
has devised was turned to account in its
construction.
The interior appointments of the Alta
lanta are remarkable for their massive
richness and total freedom from garish
display. In one end of the car is the
observation room. This is an apartment
IL feet q inches in length by . feet in
width. 1t is furnished with two easy
chairs and a sofa upholstered in bronze
silk plush, and is covered by a thick vel
vet carpet. On the sides are racks for
wraps, and over the sofa an upper berth
is tucked away so deftly into the bulk
head "a to be hardly noticeable, but it
can be let down and made into a COM
Portable bed. The door out of the obser-
vatiCn room opens into a private bed
room, which in turn opens by double
sliding doors into a second private bed
room. Both these rooms are furnished
with folding beds and have private toilet
rooms. When the sliding doors are
thrown open the room makes a hand
some pafiOr is feet In length Dy IN
width. Ii Is finished in satinwood and is
upholstered in blue silk plush. The OBJ
servation room is furnished in mahog
any. Back of the private bedrooms
comes the dining room finished i'm heav-
lily carved oak and upholstered, like the
room, in bronze silk plush
The dining room is IA feet long by in
width. In the centre is an oaken ex-
tension table, and the buIkhead separa-
ting it from the next apartment is richly
carved in open spindle work. This next
apartment simply contains. one on each
side of the car, two ordinary Pullman
sleeping berths. After this apartment
comes "A toilet room, a refrigerator. two
berths for "A porter and cook, and the
kitchen. The ends of the car are fur
nishel with closet nlatformS